The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-27
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Con With the Revolution.''
This is the title Of a clear, strong,
clean. cut, searching, stirring, brief, com.
pact, unanswerable argument, and state
ment of facts, which sweep away every
vestige of fooliug for the whisky devil"
in a civilized country. 1t is published
in pamphlet form by the Southern Meth
odist Publishing House, Nashville,
Tenn. Price, 10 cents copy, or 20 for
81. The country needs to be literally
"sown down" with the overwhelming
array of truth on the side of Prohibition
and the terrible arraignment, of the
"whisky devil" as is contained in this
publication. Some plan ought to be de.
vised to put copy of it in every mans
house in the country. 1t will wake up
thought with the intelligent, tear away
the blind from the eyes of the innocently
wrong, and move the sensibilities of the
despondent or apathetic. Therefore,
temperance organizations might accom-
plish a vast deal of effective outside
work by scattering such as this through
their limits For, be it remembered, that
not only must this great moral reform
entrench itself within the bulwarks of
the law, but it must create a public sen.
timent which will nerve and constitute
the strong arm of the law" which will
put the officer of the law on the track of
the whisky seller as swiftly and as feet.
footed as he moves upon the railroad or
other robber.
Were the Christian people of this
country alone, not to say the good citi-
zenship, reused as they should be, and as
the simple truth, plain and strong, can,
and will rouse them, they would rise up
in their majestic sovereign might and
declare by the God Of heaven and earth
that the awful curse shall be lifted from
this land.
We echo the shibboleth as we cry out,
"On with the Revolution !' And on it
goes! And will never so backward,
for great moral revolutions never do.
Just stick pin there, ye doubling souls.
The United States Brewers Association,
lately in session at Baltimore, appropri.
ated $1,000 for the assistance of liquor
men of Michigan, $4,000 for Texas, and
So 900 for Tennessee. The money to be
used in defeating the Prohibitionists.
This shows that the revolution moves in
that it assumes national form, and thus
the interest in the awful traffic feels that
measure of hazard which causes money
to leap from the pockets to protect that
interest. This looks like business. And
let it be understood that business is in.
tended.) And yet, we still hear from the
whisky devils ride the heterodox CRY,
"Prohibition don't Prohibit" It
don't, eh? Did men ever throw away
their money in that way, when in sane
condition? Never! Do you hear that?
Never f.
Then "On with the Revolution /"
And forward the mighty wave rolls,
sweeping from north to south and from
east to west, across States and empires,
oceans and continentsl
News now comes to us that three.
fourths Of the lawyers, large part Of
the politicians, nearly all the editors, all
the virtuous women, most of the teach
ers, nearly the entire membership of
Christian churches, and all the ministers
of the Gospel, are en- the Prohibition
side of the great struggle and issue now
progressing and pending in Texas.
Thanks be unto God, the answerer of
prayer. About the same, also, is now
the state of affairs in Tennessee. The
"whisky devil" may have temporary
success at the elections in these great
States. If so, (Which We doubt a moral
victory will have been gained which will
bring back the tide but to sweep with
grander and more glorious success.
A mob of anti .probibitionists assailed
prohibition meeting lately at San An.
tonic, Texas, broke it up and put on the
stand to speak noted saloon keeper in
place of Judge Brooker, Bishop Turner
and Rev. A. q. Sutherland. When
there is no truth in argument to put
forward, ruffianism will always resort to
violence to carry the. purpose aimed at.
But it always ultimately fails. If the
Prohibitionists are heard, they will de.
feat the liquor men, and if they are not
heard, the liquor men will defeat them
selves. This country will never submit
to d whisky mob. Whisky must go down
and under.
South Carolina is busy taking notes.
The gage of battle has been made, and
the skirmish lines are engaged. Ander-
son and Laurens are now on the outposts.
Soon we shall have the issue as State;
and this is the point to which We should
hasten. Then, "On with the Revolu.
tion."-A. Il. Gilbert in Southern Chris.
tian Advocate.